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...tourists using her castle as a bed-and-breakfast. Universities may lack the profit imperative that drives corporations, but they are just as fiercely competitive, always striving to get the best students, the best scholars, the best grants in order to attain the most prestige. Like every other top-tier institution, Penn seeks to attract as large an applicant pool as possible so as to admit as small a percentage of it as possible to fill its available places (a low "admit rate," considered an index of exclusivity). But it hopes most of those admitted will actually enroll (a high...
...large number of our clients are homeless and in search of assistance," Spofford says. "They often don't have the references or the skills to find housing. They're on the bottom tier and we really have to work with the clients to get them back into the mainstream...
Peninsula last week had posted flyers advertising its introductory meeting for new members. On Thursday, posters imitating those flyers were found in the Yard and the Houses, according to Bradley E. Whitman '98, a member of the Peninsula Council, the magazine's top tier of editors...
Albright is lucky to be gardening at a moment of relative tranquillity. While Warren Christopher had to cope at once with second-tier crises like Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia, Albright is free to focus on the prime challenges to American security ahead: attaining a democratic, capitalistic Russia and handling a rich, restless China as it aspires to superpower status...
...long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website for computer purchases. He isn't discussing his future plans, but the Web is surely central to them...